Prettiest picture recently taken of the Bountiful Temple!

 

Update

 Wow, I can't believe my last post was in September of 2023! That's crazy! It couldn't be farther from the truth that I haven't had a spiritual experience or insight since that time. Life has just been so busy that I have been bad about writing it down.

The cliff's notes of current events. We just had our wonderful October general conference session with incredible talks that spoke to my heart! Unfortunately our beloved Pres Nelson had just passed so it was the first time in many years to not have him there. Our new prophet Dallin H Oaks was just set apart this last week as our new prophet and I am excited to learn from him!

I am not going to attempt to catchup all that has happened, but I still want to share that I have a burning testimony of our Savior Jesus Christ! Of his life, atonement, crucifixion, resurrection and the access I have to his love every day! 

This morning I am procrastinating a bit as I should be preparing my primary lesson tomorrow, but instead I am paying bills, updating my other blog, which I just finished catching up 3 years in the past week! 

Soon I will be getting ready for my temple shift at the Bountiful Temple! Oh how I love to be in the Temple! 

I feel like my testimony in serving there these last 4 and a half years has been cemented into my soul. My beliefs have turned into knowledge! 

I know longer believe in the truthfulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I know with a surety beyond all shadow of doubt the reality of it. 

I am so grateful for so many tender mercies that God has given me in my life. I am not only blessed daily but sometimes hourly! 

I know we all are, so we just have to look for the blessings, and we will be astounded by how much we are guided by the Holy Ghost, and helped by angels on the other side of the veil!

As I celebrated my 42nd birthday, I was filled with so much joy. This quote says it all! The blessings I have in my life of being a daughter, granddaughter, wife, dog mom, aunt, sister, accountant, primary worker, temple worker and so much more have blessed me in ways I could never imagine! All I could think of was the song

When upon life's billows you are tempest tossed,

When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost,

Count your many blessings, name them one by one,

And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.

Count your blessings, name them one by one;

Count your blessings, see what God hath done;

Count your blessings, name them one by one;

Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.

Are you ever burdened with a load of care?

Does the cross seem heavy you are called to bear?

Count your many blessings, ev'ry doubt will fly,

And you will be singing as the days go by. 

When you look at others with their lands and gold,

Think that Christ has promised you His wealth untold;

Count your many blessings, money cannot buy

Your reward in heaven, nor your home on high. 

So, amid the conflict, whether great or small,

Do not be discouraged, God is over all;

Count your many blessings, angels will attend,

Help and comfort give you to your journey's end. 

When you feel like you're drowning!

 

Thoughts from Sunday School

 A couple of great scriptures we discussed in Sunday School today! Would love to hear what stood out to you from church today, whatever church you attended. 😊

3rd Floor Coordinator aka The Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland

 

For the past year, I have been serving in the temple each Saturday as the Third Floor Lead/Coordinator. 

While I love serving in the temple, this has truly not been an easy assignment for me. As the responsibility includes extreme time management as I made sure we had the right sisters in the right places for each of our four hour shift in the Celestial Room, Chapel, Endowment Rooms, Marriage Waiting Rooms, and other positions on the 3rd floor. It was also my responsibility to give the Chapel announcement before each endowment session and help latecomers make it into the sessions. Also add to that all of the help with language needs, headsets, setting up special languages in the endowment rooms, and training my other temple sisters each week. That is all in addition to serving and helping the patrons. I would always joke that position was like being the rabbit from Alice in wonderland, always making sure I knew what time it was and constantly running around.

So you could say this task has been an overwhelming one for me. But even in the stress and all the overwhelmingness, I have felt the Saviors help all along the way. Time and time again I have seen His Hand in His House. 

Perfect example. Today, the last time I served in this calling there were two sisters and two brothers getting their own endowments out in the 4pm session. Before we closed the doors we discovered one sister was still waiting for her husband and a grandmother was missing. The temple presidency is very adamant that the House of the Lord is a house of order so they don't typically hold the door and insist that sessions start on time. Which I understand and in this scenario, the room was filled with 90 plus patrons. so starting late would create problems later. But the presidency decided to hold the door for the grandmother that needed alot of extra time getting to the endowment room. The grandmother didn't end up getting to the room by wheelchair until 10 minutes after because she had arrived at the temple with an expired temple recommend so it had taken longer for her to get checked in. But because she was late ten minutes, the husband that sister was waiting on, was able to join her at the last second. He was literally walking down the hall with me in toe of the grandmother. 

So even though the session had to start 10 minutes late, which likely made all other sessions late after that, I believe it was meant to be so that both that grandmother and husband could make it into the session. 

The husband was late because he rented clothes but I guess kept estimating wrong sizes so he had been back and forth to clothing multiple times which made him delayed.

Life is so like this, things do not always work out in the time we expect they will, but in God's time all things will "work for our good". 

Pres Oaks!

 We love you and sustain you President Oaks! And look forward to continue learning from your inspired teachings! #thegospelistrue #churchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaints

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This is my favorite Pres Oaks Quote!

Powerful Talk from Conference

 My testimony of my Savior Jesus Christ and His gospel is my most prized possession! This talk was so powerful from conference. 💕💕💕Hope it inspires you as it did me!

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